Colorado County lowered its unemployment rate to 4.4. percent from 4.7 percent.

Fayette County’s unemployment was down to 3.5 per cent from 3.8 percent.

Grimes County had a 5.1 percent unemployment rate from the 5.4 percent rate the previous month.

Seven of the state’s 254 counties had doubled digit unemployment. Starr County had the highest unemployment rate in the state with 18.7 percent.

Hemphill County, the oil and gas rich county in north Texas had the lowest rate in the state and it actually dropped below two percent in its jobless rate. Hemphill County had only 1.9 percent of its unemployment out of a job.